After a turbulent week at Portman Road, I’m glad things have finally calmed down a bit and that Ipswich Town’s chief executive Mark Ashton has come out and admitted they got things wrong.
Now, while Mark didn’t have to apologise for anything, I was really uncomfortable with how our football club was being used – and in some ways tarnished – after seemingly associating itself with a political party.
I’m glad he’s come out and addressed those mistakes, and I think now, we can all move on from it, and I, for one, am glad to do so.
Suffolk News’ Ipswich Town columnist Joey Sadler
That debacle is not something that should’ve ever happened, especially at such a pivotal time in the season and hopefully now we can concentrate on finishing strongly on the pitch.
I’m nervous about the next run of fixtures, starting with Birmingham at home on Easter Monday.
It feels a lifetime ago that we were at St Andrew’s for the opening game of this Championship season – and so much has happened since that night. Town were largely poor that day and we got ourselves out of jail with a last-minute penalty.
I’m expecting a lot better this time around and fancy us to win the game, as we should do if gatecrashing the top two is to be a genuine possibility.
After that, the fixtures start to come thick and fast and don’t make for pretty reading on paper.
The previous two promotion-winning campaigns, Town have gone on some famous winning runs and we’ll need to do that again this time round.
I wrote a few weeks ago about how a certain fixture at Carrow Road would define our season and I still believe that.
Lose to mid-table Norwich City and I think that rules out our chance of automatic promotion and means we’d head into the play-offs full of woe.
But win and be the first Ipswich team to do so at Carrow Road for 20 years? Then I think that can only propel us on to the Premier League.
So come on Town, it’s time to roll up those sleeves and fight.